MYRTACE^l. 53^ 



31. Eugenia (Syzygium?) brevifolia, Sp. Nov. 



E. foliis parvis ovato-oblongis obtusis basi rotund atis subsessilibus sub- 

 coriaceis punctatis subtus leviter penninerviis; cymis terminalibus 

 parvis; peduncidis ramidisque tetragonis; bacca {magna) ovoidea. 



Hab. On the mountains of Tutuila, one of the Samoan Islands, at 

 the elevation of 2,500 feet. 



There is only a single, fruiting branch of this plant in the collec- 

 tion ; apparently from a shrub. Branches very leafy, glabrous, as is 

 the whole specimen ; the slender branchlets, as well as the short and 

 few cyynose peduncles, quadrangular, the angles acute. Leaves small, 

 an inch or less in length, ovate-oblong, obtuse, or slightly and obtusely 

 pointed, rounded at the base, subsessile (the petioles only half a line 

 long), coriaceous in texture, dull, ^eMwoidL-punctate by transmitted 

 light, lightly feather-veined beneath. Flowers not seen. Mature fruit 

 ovoid, baccate, large for the foliage, half an inch long and almost of 

 that diameter near the base, narrowed at the summit, which is deeply 

 umbilicate ; the calyx-teeth probably short, but deciduous : within 

 one-celled, two-seeded. Cotyledons orbiculate, fleshy, peltate. 



There are in the collection undeterminable sterile branches of 

 several Myrtacece, probably species of Eugenia, from the Samoan, 

 Friendly, Feejee, and Mangsi Islands, and from Luzon. 



3. MYRCIA, DC. 

 1. Myrcia exsucca, Mart. 

 Myrcia exsucca, Mart, in DC. Prodr. 3, p. 247 ; St. Hil. Fl. Bras. 2, p. 316. 

 Hab. Organ Mountains, Brazil. (Foliage only.) 



2. Myrcia pubescens, Mart. I c 

 Hab. Brazil, in the neighbourhood of Rio Janeiro. 



